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Mead, Metal and Viking Festival pillages in Milton

Going all out with the Norse look, complete with horns and war paint, are Brittany and James Carlisle of Dover. RYAN MAVITY PHOTOS
Ryan Mavity
June 15, 2024
Dave Lyons and Diane Hamelin of Baltimore take a stroll through the festival grounds.
Lorna Ferguson poses with Hank, a member of the flock at Roosters of Ragnarok, a New Jersey-based chicken sanctuary. The name comes from Norse mythology, in which the crowing of three roosters would signal the beginning of Ragnarok, which was believed to be the end of the world of gods and men.
Needlez The Dragonborn plays with fire June 8 at the Mead, Metal and Viking Festival at Brimming Horn Meadery near Milton.
Festivalgoers crowd around the tents at the Mead, Metal and Viking Festival June 8.
Cleveland-based metal band Axioma plays at Brimming Horn Meadery June 8.

The theme of the fifth annual Mead, Metal and Viking Festival at Brimming Horn Meadery in Milton June 8 was Party like It's 793, and the crowd certainly lived up to that ideal.

The three-day festival was a celebration of the Viking aesthetic, as a good many people dressed in traditional Norse garb and horns were raised, not just in the glasses serving up Brimming Horn meads or on the costumes, but also in the music as well. Acts alternated between traditional heavy metal and its Viking-influenced subgenre, folk metal, which incorporates traditional Scandinavian instruments. The festival also featured booths with both Viking-themed crafts and performers.

 

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Ryan Mavity covers Milton and the court system. He is married to Rachel Swick Mavity and has two kids, Alex and Jane. Ryan started with the Cape Gazette all the way back in February 2007, previously covering the City of Rehoboth Beach. A native of Easton, Md. and graduate of Towson University, Ryan enjoys watching the Baltimore Ravens, Washington Capitals and Baltimore Orioles in his spare time.

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